Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change; we change.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Change

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Confucius

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Brown, Les

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Ruskin, John