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

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

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Davis, William B.

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

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

Burke, Edmund

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Dante Alighieri

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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.

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

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

Confucius

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Paul, Jean

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

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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