Motivational Quotes

Change

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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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.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Kearney

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Virgil

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Petworth, John

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Brown, Les

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Spander, Art

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

Heraclitus

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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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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 search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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