Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bennett, Arnold

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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.

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

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

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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Eliot, George

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Buffett, Warren

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar