Motivational Quotes

Change

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

- Mailer, Norman

Best Quotes about Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Hooker, Richard

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.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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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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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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 begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Shaw, P.K.