Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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.

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

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Carol Burnett

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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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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Naisbitt, John

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Heraclitus

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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

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Confucius

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Davis, William B.

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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