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

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.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Davis, William B.

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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.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Shelton, Richard

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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