Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Mohammed

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Tilden, Bill

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

George, David Lloyd

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Paz, Octavio

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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 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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Maslow, Abraham H.