Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Rogers, Will

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

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

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

Tracy, Brian

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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

Virgil

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Angelou, Maya

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Spander, Art

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

31.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Menander of Athens

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Rohn, Jim

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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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