Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gilcrest, Peter

Best Quotes about Change

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Waitley, Denis

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Petworth, John

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Shelton, Richard

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Carol Burnett

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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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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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