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

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.

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

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

10.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

11.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

12.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Mohammed

16.

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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

18.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Porter, Irene

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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

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

24.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

25.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

30.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

31.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

33.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

34.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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

Lynn Hall

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Paul, Jean

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kearney

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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.