Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Hooker, Richard

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dean, Jimmy

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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

11.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bailey, Pearl

15.

Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Porter, Irene

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Angelou, Maya

28.

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

Virgil

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Gerhart, Susan

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma