Motivational Quotes

Change

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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.

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

Susan Rice

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.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

27.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Waitley, Denis

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Rohn, Jim

35.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James