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

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Angelou, Maya

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.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Bailey, Pearl

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.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Buffett, Warren

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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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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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.

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

Christina Baldwin

19.

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

Lynn Hall

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Virgil

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Waitley, Denis

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

George, David Lloyd

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

38.

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?

39.

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

Murdock, Mike

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.