Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Udall, Mo

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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Paul, Jean

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

16.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Susan Rice

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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

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

Bible

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

Spander, Art

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Christina Baldwin

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Depree, Max

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

46.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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.