Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Lynn Hall

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

19.

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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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 first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Mohammed

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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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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

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Ruskin, John

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Eliot, George