Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Porter, Irene

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Constant change is here to stay.

30.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Bailey, Pearl

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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