Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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.

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.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Waitley, Denis

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Brown, Les

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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