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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Gilcrest, Peter

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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.

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 seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

12.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

13.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Constant change is here to stay.

15.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

16.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Porter, Irene

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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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Dean, Jimmy

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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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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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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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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Naisbitt, John

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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