Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Maslow, Abraham H.

Best Quotes about Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Heraclitus

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

10.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Rohn, Jim

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Real Live Preacher

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

41.

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

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Rogers, Will

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.