Motivational Quotes

Change

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

- Porter, Irene

Best Quotes about Change

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Sontag, Susan

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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.

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Things do not change, we do.