Motivational Quotes

Change

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Tracy, Brian

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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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 one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Kettering, Charles F.

32.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Ruskin, John

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

Confucius

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

Virgil

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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