Motivational Quotes

Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Spander, Art

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Porter, Irene

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Carol Burnett

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Shelton, Richard

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Susan Rice

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

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell