Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mcgovern, William

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Kearney

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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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

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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?

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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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

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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