Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Maslow, Abraham H.

Best Quotes about Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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?

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Virgil

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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.

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Naisbitt, John

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

37.

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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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