Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ramsay Clark

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

10.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

11.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Porter, Irene

26.

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

Spander, Art

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

Davis, William B.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio