Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

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

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.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Davis, William B.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Kearney

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Klee, Paul

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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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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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.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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