Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Kettering, Charles F.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

10.

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

Bennett, Arnold

11.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

12.

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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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Porter, Irene

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Riley, Pat

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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.

44.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold