Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Bailey, Pearl

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.

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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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?

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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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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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Waitley, Denis

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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 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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Depree, Max

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davis, William B.

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

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Lynn Hall

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Confucius

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.