Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Change

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Herford, Oliver

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Paz, Octavio

10.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

12.

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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

29.

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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin