Motivational Quotes

Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Harrison Ford

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Tracy, Brian

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Heraclitus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

43.

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.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent