Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spander, Art

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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.