Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Change

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Heraclitus

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

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Petworth, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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

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

Carol Burnett

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Susan Rice

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Brown, Les

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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 not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Things do not change, we do.