Motivational Quotes

Change

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

- Sinetar, Marsha

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Waitley, Denis

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Heraclitus

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

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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 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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Klee, Paul

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Kearney

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Heraclitus

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

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Spander, Art

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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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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 only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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