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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Porter, Irene

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Susan Rice

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

Dewar, Jeff

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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