Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

A Course In Miracles

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Peters, Thomas J.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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 great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Confucius

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Heraclitus

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Schuller, Robert H.