Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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.

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

Shaw, P.K.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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 is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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 only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Kempis, Thomas

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Andy Warhol

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Burke, Edmund

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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