Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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 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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Udall, Mo

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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