Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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

Herford, Oliver

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Felltham, Owen

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Kearney

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Spander, Art

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

Heraclitus

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Davis, William B.

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Brown, Les

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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 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.

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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 and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.