Motivational Quotes

Change

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

- Maslow, Abraham H.

Best Quotes about Change

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

10.

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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

13.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

14.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

15.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Paul, Jean

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

Carol Burnett

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Constant change is here to stay.

40.

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

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

Mohammed

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

George, David Lloyd

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.