Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Riley, Pat

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Paul, Jean

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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 only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Porter, Irene

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.