Motivational Quotes

Change

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Lynn Hall

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Eliot, George

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hooker, Richard

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Virgil

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

Carol Burnett

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

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody