Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dewar, Jeff

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Felltham, Owen

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

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

Spander, Art

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Burke, Edmund

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Petworth, John

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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 need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent