Motivational Quotes

Change

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

- Richfield, Lew

Best Quotes about Change

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Tracy, Brian

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Herford, Oliver

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Heraclitus

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.