Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Hoffer, Eric

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Waitley, Denis

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Lee, Bruce

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ramsay Clark

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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

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Depree, Max

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Davis, William B.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Tilden, Bill

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Confucius

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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