Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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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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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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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

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Ruskin, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Depree, Max

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo