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

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

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

Petworth, John

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

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Riley, Pat

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Glasgow, Ellen

10.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

11.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

12.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

19.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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 and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Marcinko, Richard

28.

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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Virgil

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

40.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.