Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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.

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

Kearney

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Ruskin, John

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

Lynn Hall

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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.