Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Change

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

13.

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

Kearney

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

17.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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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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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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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

33.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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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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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.