Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Harrison Ford

Best Quotes about Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Watts, Alan W.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Mohammed

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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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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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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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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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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 psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Porter, Irene

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Petworth, John

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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 happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.