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

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

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.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

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

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Lynn Hall

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

Angelou, Maya

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ruskin, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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 main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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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

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Susan Rice