Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

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

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Andy Warhol

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

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Confucius

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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