Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Change

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

10.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Klee, Paul

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Lynn Hall

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter