Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Change

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

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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.

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.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

A Course In Miracles

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Riley, Pat

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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

11.

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

Heraclitus

12.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Kearney

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Klee, Paul

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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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Watts, Alan W.