Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Ruskin, John

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Shelton, Richard

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Kearney

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

Harrison Ford

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Davis, William B.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Riley, Pat

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Virgil

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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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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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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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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

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Heraclitus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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

Dean, Jimmy

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Lynn Hall

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Porter, Irene

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von