Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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?

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Harrison Ford

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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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

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

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Davis, William B.

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