Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Hooker, Richard

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Klee, Paul

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

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

10.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bible

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

17.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Bellin, Gita

29.

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

Harrison Ford

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

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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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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

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

Confucius

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

Kearney

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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