Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Angelou, Maya

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep