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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Ramsay Clark

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Churchill, Winston

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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, 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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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rogers, Will

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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

46.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Proust, Marcel

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Things do not change; we change.