Motivational Quotes

Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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Best Quotes about Change

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Porter, Irene

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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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

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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