Motivational Quotes

Change

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Susan Rice

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

10.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

11.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

13.

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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Lynn Hall

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

28.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Burke, Edmund

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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 is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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

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

Gilcrest, Peter