Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Change

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Murdock, Mike

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Heraclitus

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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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

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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 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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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Angelou, Maya

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

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

Carol Burnett

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Harrison Ford

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony