Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

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

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

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

Virgil

11.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

12.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

13.

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

Angelou, Maya

14.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

15.

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

16.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

17.

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

18.

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

Mcgovern, William

19.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

20.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

21.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

22.

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

Shelton, Richard

24.

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

25.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

27.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

28.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

30.

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

Jackson, Jesse

31.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

33.

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

Ward, William A.

34.

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

Petworth, John

35.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

36.

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

37.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

38.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

40.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

41.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

42.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

43.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

48.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

49.

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

Draper, John W.

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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.