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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Klee, Paul

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Petworth, John

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Tilden, Bill

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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 has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Tracy, Brian

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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

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

A Course In Miracles

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Shelton, Richard

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Harrison Ford

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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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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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