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

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hooker, Richard

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

17.

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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Naisbitt, John

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

28.

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

Burke, Edmund

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

A Course In Miracles

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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

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Depree, Max

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

42.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ruskin, John

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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