Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Walesa, Lech

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Heraclitus

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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcgovern, William

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Bailey, Pearl

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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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