Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Dewar, Jeff

10.

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

Porter, Irene

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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

14.

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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Andy Warhol

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

26.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

27.

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.

28.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

40.

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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy