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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Jackson, Jesse

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

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

Depree, Max

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Lynn Hall

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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.

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Proust, Marcel

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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