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

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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 is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Petworth, John

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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

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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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Mohammed

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma