Motivational Quotes

Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Change

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Christina Baldwin

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Depree, Max

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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?

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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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