Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

- D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Porter, Irene

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Ramsay Clark

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Tilden, Bill

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

49.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge