Motivational Quotes

Change

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

- Mailer, Norman

Best Quotes about Change

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Paul, Jean

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Porter, Irene

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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

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

Spander, Art

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Rogers, Will

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

Heraclitus

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Constant change is here to stay.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Hoffer, Eric