Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bible

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lynn Hall

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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