Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about 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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Murdock, Mike

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Menander of Athens

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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