Motivational Quotes

Change

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Hoffer, Eric

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Depree, Max

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

George, David Lloyd

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Kempis, 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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Ruskin, John

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.