Motivational Quotes

Change

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Brown, Les

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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 thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Petworth, 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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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 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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Klee, Paul

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

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