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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Waitley, Denis

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

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

Pope, Alexander

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Shelton, Richard

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Mohammed

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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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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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Spander, Art

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

Ruskin, John

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.