Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Depree, Max

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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'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?

27.

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

Brown, Les

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Heraclitus

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Spander, Art

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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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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.

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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar