Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

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

Branden, Nathaniel

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Davis, William B.

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.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Bible

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Brown, Les

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Waitley, Denis

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.