Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Porter, Irene

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

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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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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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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Kearney

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius