Motivational Quotes

Change

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Best Quotes about Change

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

Harrison Ford

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

A Course In Miracles

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

17.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Andy Warhol

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Susan Rice

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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

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

Petworth, John

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

George, David Lloyd

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Waitley, Denis

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Bellin, Gita