Motivational Quotes

Change

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eliot, George

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

Mohammed

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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

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Udall, Mo

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

Nelson Mandela

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Paz, Octavio