Motivational Quotes

Change

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

10.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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

12.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

13.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

14.

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

15.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Dean, Jimmy

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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.

18.

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

Spander, Art

19.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

25.

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

Rohn, Jim

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

28.

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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Herford, Oliver

32.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Felltham, Owen

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

39.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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.

42.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

43.

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

44.

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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul