Motivational Quotes

Change

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Confucius

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Menander of Athens

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Petworth, John

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

Porter, Irene

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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