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

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Constant change is here to stay.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Heraclitus

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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

11.

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

Riley, Pat

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

17.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Rogers, Will

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Paul, Jean

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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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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

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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