Motivational Quotes

Change

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Lynn Hall

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

Bible

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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 primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Virgil

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

Sontag, Susan

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Riley, Pat

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Davis, William B.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.