Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

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.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Heraclitus

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lynn Hall

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Spander, Art

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Paul, Jean

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

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