Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hoffer, Eric

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.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

21.

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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Paul, Jean

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Davis, William B.