Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Dewar, Jeff

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Harrison Ford

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William