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

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

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Menander of Athens

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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

30.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Andy Warhol

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bryson, Lyman L.