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

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Mcgovern, William

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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 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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Porter, Irene

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Kearney

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

Harrison Ford

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Petworth, John

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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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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

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

41.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh