Motivational Quotes

Change

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Change

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Lynn Hall

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Felltham, Owen

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Proust, Marcel

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Shaw, P.K.