Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Virgil

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Naisbitt, John

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

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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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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

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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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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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

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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?