Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Bennett, Arnold

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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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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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Porter, Irene

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

Proust, Marcel

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Shaw, P.K.