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 inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Spander, Art

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

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

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

Christina Baldwin

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Tilden, Bill

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Davis, William B.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ramsay Clark

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.