Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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?

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

Tilden, Bill

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.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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 world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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