Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Freeman, James Dillet

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Harrison Ford

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Dean, Jimmy

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Eliot, George

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

38.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von