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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Churchill, Winston

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Lynn Hall

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Heraclitus

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Rohn, Jim

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Andy Warhol

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

Tilden, Bill

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Hooker, Richard