Motivational Quotes

Change

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Change

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

Riley, Pat

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

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.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Will

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

Burke, Edmund

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Heraclitus

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Carol Burnett

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Porter, Irene

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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 yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Waitley, Denis

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Ruskin, John

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Heraclitus

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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