Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

- D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Spander, Art

11.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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.

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

28.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Petworth, John

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

35.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tracy, Brian