Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

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.

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

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

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

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Churchill, Winston

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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

Carol Burnett

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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 is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Heraclitus

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