Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Depree, Max

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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 things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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 things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Tilden, Bill

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Spander, Art

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Waitley, Denis

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Paz, Octavio

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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Menander of Athens

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

Andy Warhol

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.