Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Harrison Ford

Best Quotes about Change

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

Pickens, T. Boone

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Watts, Alan W.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Nelson Mandela

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

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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.

10.

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

Carol Burnett

11.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

12.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

13.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

25.

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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Dewar, Jeff

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

32.

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

33.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Shelton, Richard

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

42.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

50.

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