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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Klee, Paul

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

Einstein, Albert

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Eliot, George

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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.

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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.

17.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Heraclitus

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.