Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

Depree, Max

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Virgil

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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 search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Carol Burnett

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Shelton, Richard

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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 an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy