Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

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

Brown, Les

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Lynn Hall

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

10.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

11.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

12.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

15.

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

16.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Carol Burnett

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

31.

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.

32.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

34.

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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

46.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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