Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Kearney

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

33.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan