Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Confucius

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Harrison Ford

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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.