Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lynn Hall

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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.