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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Kearney

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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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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Porter, Irene

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.