Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Almanac, Mary S.

Best Quotes about Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Constant change is here to stay.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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?

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

10.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

11.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

12.

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

Andy Warhol

13.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

14.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

15.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Menander of Athens

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Kearney

35.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

39.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

40.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin