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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Dante Alighieri

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

11.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Confucius

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Spander, Art

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Eliot, George

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Lynn Hall

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Paul, Jean

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

44.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

46.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Porter, Irene

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

Hooker, Richard

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob