Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

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

Depree, Max

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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 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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Porter, Irene

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Tilden, Bill

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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