Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Jackson, Jesse

Best Quotes about Change

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?

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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.

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

Menander of Athens

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Spander, Art

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

Bible

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Ruskin, John

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lynn Hall

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Paul, Jean

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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