Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Kearney

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

George, David Lloyd

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Ramsay Clark

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Confucius

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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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.