Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Tilden, Bill

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Klee, Paul

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

Confucius

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Susan Rice

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Murdock, Mike

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Eliot, George

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe