Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

12.

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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

25.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

27.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Carol Burnett

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Robbins, Anthony

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus