Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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 difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Kearney

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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

Mcgovern, William

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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 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.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lynn Hall

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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?

31.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

32.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

George, David Lloyd

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Carol Burnett

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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