Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

- Hunt, Trinidad

Best Quotes about Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Buffett, Warren

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.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Felltham, Owen

10.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

11.

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

Carol Burnett

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

16.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

17.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

19.

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

20.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

21.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

22.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

24.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

25.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

28.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Nelson Mandela

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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

32.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

33.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

34.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

35.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

43.

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

Andy Warhol

44.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

45.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

46.

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

Harrison Ford

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Naisbitt, John