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

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Einstein, Albert

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Petworth, John

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Real Live Preacher

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.