Motivational Quotes

Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shelton, Richard

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.

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

Socrates

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.