Motivational Quotes

Change

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

- Braude, Jacob M.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Depree, Max

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Naisbitt, John

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Einstein, Albert

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

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

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

Carol Burnett

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Susan Rice

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Heraclitus

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Bailey, Pearl

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Davis, William B.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Porter, Irene

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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