Motivational Quotes

Change

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Change

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Ramsay Clark

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

10.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

11.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

12.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

13.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

17.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Spander, Art

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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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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

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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

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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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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Angelou, Maya

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Garfield, Charles A.

37.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Draper, John W.

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

Heraclitus

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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 all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

45.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William