Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Virgil

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

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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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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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 first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Riley, Pat

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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