Motivational Quotes

Change

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Best Quotes about Change

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Real Live Preacher

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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 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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Menander of Athens

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Waitley, Denis

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius