Motivational Quotes

Change

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Change

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

Socrates

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.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Glasgow, Ellen

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

10.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

12.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

19.

Constant change is here to stay.

20.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Depree, Max

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Harrison Ford

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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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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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn