Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Tilden, Bill

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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.

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

Andy Warhol

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Brown, Les

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Davis, William B.

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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 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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bible

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.