Motivational Quotes

Change

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

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.

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

Gerhart, Susan

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

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

Petworth, John

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

Spencer, Herbert

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Naisbitt, John

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Constant change is here to stay.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Spander, Art

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

33.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Carol Burnett

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Bailey, Pearl