Motivational Quotes

Change

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Robbins, Anthony

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Menander of Athens

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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?

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony