Motivational Quotes

Change

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The only people who like change are wet babies.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Depree, Max

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Mcgovern, William

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Petworth, John

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

Dean, Jimmy

41.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio