Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Pope, Alexander

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.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

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

Dante Alighieri

11.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

12.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

13.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

14.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

15.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

17.

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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Virgil

20.

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

21.

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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

23.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Petworth, John

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Christina Baldwin

30.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

32.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

33.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

34.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

35.

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

36.

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

Tilden, Bill

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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

43.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Gerhart, Susan

45.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

48.

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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.