Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Udall, Mo

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Paul, Jean

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Heraclitus

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Carol Burnett

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Davis, William B.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.