Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Petworth, John

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Carol Burnett

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

Ruskin, John

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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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.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Felltham, Owen

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Sinetar, Marsha