Motivational Quotes

Change

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Change

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Depree, Max

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Spencer, Herbert

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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

11.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

14.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

17.

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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Kearney

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

22.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

25.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

31.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Churchill, Winston

33.

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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Petworth, John

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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?

40.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Heraclitus

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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