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

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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?

12.

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

Tilden, Bill

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

21.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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

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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 cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Porter, Irene

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Robbins, Anthony

39.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.