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

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Porter, Irene

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Kearney

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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 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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Virgil

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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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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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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Susan Rice

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Heraclitus

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff