Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Virgil

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

10.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

11.

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

Bennett, Arnold

12.

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

13.

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

Mohammed

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

16.

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

Kearney

17.

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

Harrison Ford

18.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Brown, Les

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

25.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Naisbitt, John

28.

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.