Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Porter, Irene

Best Quotes about Change

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

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

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Spencer, Herbert

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Tilden, Bill

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Klee, Paul

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

Depree, Max

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Dante Alighieri

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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