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

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

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Kearney

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

Drucker, Peter F.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Brown, Les

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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

21.

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

Petworth, John

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Ramsay Clark

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Christina Baldwin

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.