Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

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

Eliot, George

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

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

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buffett, Warren

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?

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

Harrison Ford

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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 you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Carol Burnett

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

Menander of Athens

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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