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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

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?

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Petworth, John

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Eliot, George

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

George, David Lloyd

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol