Motivational Quotes

Change

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pope, Alexander

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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.

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

10.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

11.

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

Rogers, Will

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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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

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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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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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

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

27.

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

Naisbitt, John

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Andy Warhol

33.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

46.

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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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.