Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Porter, Irene

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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.

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 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

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

Kearney

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Waitley, Denis

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Andy Warhol

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Spander, Art

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Davis, William B.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.