Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

George, David Lloyd

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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.

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Tracy, Brian

25.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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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

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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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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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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Waitley, Denis

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

39.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent