Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hooker, Richard

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Heraclitus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

18.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

19.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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

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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 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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

29.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

30.

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 rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Rogers, Will

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

Petworth, John

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Porter, Irene

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Brown, Les

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Riley, Pat

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter