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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Menander of Athens

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Spander, Art

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

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Mcgovern, William

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Butterworth, Eric

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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