Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Draper, John W.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Heraclitus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Heraclitus

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

Petworth, John

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Carol Burnett

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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

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Andy Warhol

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone