Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Porter, Irene

Best Quotes about Change

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Burke, Edmund

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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.

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Naisbitt, John

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spander, Art

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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