Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ramsay Clark

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Depree, Max

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

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

Lynn Hall

10.

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

Udall, Mo

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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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

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Tilden, Bill

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

19.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

22.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Klee, Paul

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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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

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Virgil

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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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