Motivational Quotes

Change

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

- Sikes, Rex Steven

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Dean, Jimmy

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Bennett, Arnold

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Confucius

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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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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Depree, Max

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Burke, Edmund

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle