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

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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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

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Tilden, Bill

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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