Motivational Quotes

Change

In pain is a new time born.

- Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Best Quotes about Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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 I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Eliot, George

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

16.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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 inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Virgil

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Waitley, Denis

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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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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 the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma