Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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 is not reform, any more than noise is music.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

11.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

12.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

13.

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

14.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

18.

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

Nelson Mandela

20.

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.

21.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

24.

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

Tracy, Brian

25.

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

Murdock, Mike

26.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

33.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Christina Baldwin

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Ward, William A.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy