Motivational Quotes

Change

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Change

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

Eliot, George

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Buffett, Warren

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Waitley, Denis

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Confucius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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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

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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There is nothing permanent except change.

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

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Proust, Marcel

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Ruskin, John

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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