Motivational Quotes

Change

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Almanac, Mary S.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Andy Warhol

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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 do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General