Motivational Quotes

Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

- ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Burke, Edmund

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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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

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

Depree, Max

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Confucius

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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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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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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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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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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