Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Petworth, John

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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 do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe