Motivational Quotes

Change

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

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

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Lynn Hall

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Buffett, Warren

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Robbins, Anthony

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Waitley, Denis