Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dean, Jimmy

Best Quotes about Change

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bellin, Gita

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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

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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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Angelou, Maya

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William