Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Harrison Ford

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

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

Confucius

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

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Porter, Irene

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Ruskin, John

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Depree, Max

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Tracy, Brian

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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