Motivational Quotes

Change

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Change

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis