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

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Buffett, Warren

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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 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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Nelson Mandela

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Lynn Hall

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

Porter, Irene

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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