Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

10.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelton, Richard

14.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

26.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Butterworth, Eric

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

37.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

38.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

40.

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

Virgil

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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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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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.