Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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 did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Harrison Ford

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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