Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Change

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

Christina Baldwin

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Pope, Alexander

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Burke, Edmund

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Herford, Oliver

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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