Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Harrison Ford

Best Quotes about Change

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

Harrison Ford

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.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Kearney

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

10.

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

Jackson, Nelson

11.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

12.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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 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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ruskin, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

28.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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.

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Confucius

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.