Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Mcgovern, William

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

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

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

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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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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Kearney

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Carol Burnett

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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