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

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

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

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Dewar, Jeff

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.

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

Menander of Athens

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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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

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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.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Depree, Max

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

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Eliot, George

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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