Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Best Quotes about Change

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Ruskin, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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

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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Confucius

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.