Motivational Quotes

Change

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

- Dewar, Jeff

Best Quotes about Change

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Susan Rice

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.

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Bellin, Gita

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Spander, Art

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ramsay Clark

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy