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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Rogers, Will

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

Heraclitus

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kearney

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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