Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Tracy, Brian

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Lynn Hall

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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?

29.

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

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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

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver