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Change Quotes: It's Time to Shift Gears

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If the stimulus is the need to change, the typical response is to reject that need. We prefer to reject change rather than embrace it. Why? Because inertia makes us feel comfortable. Change forces us to explore new turf. When there is no change, things are familiar, and hence there is a feeling of security. Change is unsettling. But change can add an exciting twist to a mundane life. If you like a fast paced life, full of twists and turns, read some provoking change quotes that remind you of the benefits of change.

Marian Wright Edelman
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Robert C. Gallagher
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.

John Porter
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Kathleen Norris
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Albert Einstein
Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Ovid
All things change; nothing perishes.

William Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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

Marcus Aurelius
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

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