Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Udall, Mo

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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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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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Davis, William B.

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Christina Baldwin

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.