Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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.

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Depree, Max

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Herford, Oliver

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Porter, Irene

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Confucius

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

Einstein, Albert

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Heraclitus

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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.