Motivational Quotes

Change

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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.

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

Jackson, Nelson

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Hoffer, Eric

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tilden, Bill

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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 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

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Butterworth, Eric

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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