Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Ruskin, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

10.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

12.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

13.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

14.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Garfield, Charles A.

22.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

23.

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

Menander of Athens

24.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

25.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Porter, Irene

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

36.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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

40.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

41.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

42.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

43.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

44.

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

Draper, John W.

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.