Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Change

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

Baudrillard, Jean

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Davis, William B.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Draper, John W.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Harrison Ford

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

Spander, Art

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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 is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Mcgovern, William

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Andy Warhol

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

Depree, Max

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Heraclitus

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Porter, Irene

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Tracy, Brian

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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