Motivational Quotes

Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Best Quotes about Change

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Garfield, Charles A.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

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

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Porter, Irene

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Heraclitus

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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

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

Christina Baldwin

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Davis, William B.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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