Motivational Quotes

Change

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

- Susan Rice

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Sinetar, Marsha

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Davis, William B.

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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 powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Real Live Preacher

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.