Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

- Nelson Mandela

Best Quotes about Change

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Paul, Jean

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Heraclitus

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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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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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 is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert 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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.