Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

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

Christina Baldwin

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

11.

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

Mcgovern, William

12.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

14.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

15.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

16.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Confucius

18.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

19.

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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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

26.

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

Mohammed

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

30.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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 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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

49.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel