Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Ward, William A.

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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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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

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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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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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Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean