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

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Porter, Irene

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Bailey, Pearl

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Confucius

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Christina Baldwin

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Davis, William B.

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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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