Motivational Quotes

Change

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Change

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Garfield, Charles A.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Constant change is here to stay.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Walesa, Lech

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Rogers, Will

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Paz, Octavio

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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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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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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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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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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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Robbins, Anthony