Motivational Quotes

Change

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

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

Kearney

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

Virgil

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Carol Burnett

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Porter, Irene

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

Hooker, Richard

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