Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Heraclitus

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Davis, William B.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Kearney

24.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

30.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Brown, Les

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Shelton, Richard

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Bellin, Gita