Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Change

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

Proust, Marcel

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Petworth, John

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

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

Dean, Jimmy

11.

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

Spander, Art

12.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

19.

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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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

29.

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Naisbitt, John

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

42.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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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 industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy