Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

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

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Carol Burnett

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Mcgovern, William

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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.

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Lee, Bruce