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

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

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

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

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Bennett, Arnold

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Petworth, John

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

Socrates

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo