Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Change

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shaw, P.K.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Ruskin, John

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

Virgil

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

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Heraclitus

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Naisbitt, 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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American