Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Harrison Ford

Best Quotes about Change

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

Harrison Ford

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

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Eliot, George

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

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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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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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 is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Depree, Max

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

Hooker, Richard

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Bible

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spander, Art

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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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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

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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 need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To change and change for the better are two different things