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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

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

Nelson Mandela

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

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.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

10.

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

Jackson, Nelson

11.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

12.

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

Kearney

13.

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

Klee, Paul

14.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

15.

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

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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.

17.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

18.

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

Porter, Irene

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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.

22.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

24.

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

Proust, Marcel

25.

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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

33.

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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

39.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Heraclitus

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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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.