Motivational Quotes

Change

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

- Ryan, Nolan

Best Quotes about Change

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Virgil

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

Menander of Athens

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Mcgovern, William

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Harrison Ford

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

Sinetar, Marsha

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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 most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Eliot, George

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

Shaw, P.K.