Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Waitley, Denis

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

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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?

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Shelton, Richard

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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 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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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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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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shaw, P.K.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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