Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Eliot, George

Constant change is here to stay.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

11.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

12.

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

13.

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

14.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

16.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

17.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

18.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

22.

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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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 always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Ruskin, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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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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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

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Heraclitus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

46.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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