Motivational Quotes

Change

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

- Dewar, Jeff

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Heraclitus

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

Davis, William B.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Tracy, Brian

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Carol Burnett

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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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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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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ward, William A.

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

Bible

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Churchill, Winston

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Einstein, Albert