Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes but change.

- Zangwill, Israel

Best Quotes about Change

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Spander, Art

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Menander of Athens

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.