Motivational Quotes

Change

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bailey, Pearl

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Proust, Marcel

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

10.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

11.

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

12.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

17.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Pope, Alexander

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Christina Baldwin

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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

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

Andy Warhol

30.

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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

32.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Menander of Athens

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

Waitley, Denis

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.