Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Pickens, T. Boone

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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.

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

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

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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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

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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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Andy Warhol

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Petworth, John

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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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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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.

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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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

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter