Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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

Christina Baldwin

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

12.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

13.

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

14.

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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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Butterworth, Eric

18.

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

Davis, William B.

19.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

20.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

25.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

31.

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

Shaw, P.K.

32.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

33.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Susan Rice

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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 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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Depree, Max

43.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

44.

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

46.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

49.

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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah