Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Susan Rice

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rogers, Will

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

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

Virgil

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

Depree, Max

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

Hooker, Richard

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Petworth, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Dean, Jimmy