Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Kearney

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Angelou, Maya

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Waitley, Denis

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

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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