Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Klee, Paul

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Depree, Max

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

12.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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?

22.

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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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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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

28.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

31.

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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Waitley, Denis

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.