Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Porter, Irene

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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.

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

Carol Burnett

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Davis, William B.

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

26.

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

Heraclitus

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

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

Tilden, Bill

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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.

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu