Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Gerhart, Susan

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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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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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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