Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Walesa, Lech

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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 is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Paz, Octavio

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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

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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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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep