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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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?

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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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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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spander, Art

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Ruskin, John

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Petworth, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Brown, Les

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Davis, William B.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed