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

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

Spander, Art

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.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

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

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.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Confucius

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Gerhart, Susan

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Brown, Les

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