Motivational Quotes

Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Change

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dean, Jimmy

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Spander, Art

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

Ruskin, John

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Heraclitus

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.