Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Bible

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

George, David Lloyd

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Heraclitus

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Bellin, Gita

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Carol Burnett

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Virgil

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mohammed

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne