Motivational Quotes

Change

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Best Quotes about Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

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

Naisbitt, John

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Confucius

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Heraclitus

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Heraclitus

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah