Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Change

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Draper, John W.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Tracy, Brian

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Confucius

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Bible

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

Heraclitus