Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ruskin, John

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Virgil

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Petworth, John

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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.

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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

George, David Lloyd

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Spander, Art

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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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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 change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.