Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Ruskin, John

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

Kearney

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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 means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

18.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

19.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Porter, Irene

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

25.

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

Udall, Mo

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

31.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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.

35.

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert