Motivational Quotes

Change

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

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

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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.

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

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

Dean, Jimmy

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

10.

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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

15.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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

18.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

22.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

23.

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

Dante Alighieri

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Angelou, Maya

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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.

28.

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.

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

40.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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