Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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.

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.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

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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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Constant change is here to stay.

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Petworth, John

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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

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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