Motivational Quotes

Change

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

- Adalphos, General

Best Quotes about Change

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Almanac, Mary S.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shaw, P.K.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Kearney

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

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

10.

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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Petworth, John

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Waitley, Denis

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Menander of Athens

33.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

34.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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.