Motivational Quotes

Change

In pain is a new time born.

- Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Udall, Mo

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

Bailey, Pearl

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Susan Rice

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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.

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

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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.

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

Petworth, John

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Porter, Irene

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Depree, Max

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles