Motivational Quotes

Change

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

- Meryl Streep

Best Quotes about Change

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Jackson, Nelson

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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

Davis, William B.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Depree, Max

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Riley, Pat

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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