Motivational Quotes

Change

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about 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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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?

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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.

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

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Shaw, P.K.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Hooker, Richard

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count 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 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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

40.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent