Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Porter, Irene

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Heraclitus

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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.

31.

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

Carol Burnett

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Davis, William B.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad