Motivational Quotes

Change

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

- Cary, Joyce

Best Quotes about Change

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?

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

Andy Warhol

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Socrates

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Klee, Paul

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

Rogers, Will

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

Udall, Mo

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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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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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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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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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.

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

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Carol Burnett

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund