Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Freeman, James Dillet

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Murdock, Mike

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

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

10.

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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Waitley, Denis

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Herford, Oliver

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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

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Eliot, George

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

Kearney

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

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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.

45.

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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.