Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Sontag, Susan

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Ramsay Clark

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hoffer, Eric

10.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

11.

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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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Virgil

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Naisbitt, John

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Kearney

34.

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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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Spander, Art

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Petworth, John

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus