Motivational Quotes

Change

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

- Sinetar, Marsha

Best Quotes about Change

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

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

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Tracy, Brian

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Maslow, Abraham H.