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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Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

Susan Rice

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.

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.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Tracy, Brian

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Lynn Hall

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Petworth, John

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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.