Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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 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.

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

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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.

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

Bible

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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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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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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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Heraclitus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Tracy, Brian

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Davis, William B.

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Angelou, Maya

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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