Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Porter, Irene

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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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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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

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

Herford, Oliver

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel