Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Change

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Almanac, Mary S.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

10.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

12.

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.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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 and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Tracy, Brian

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

40.

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

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Spander, Art

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

Angelou, Maya

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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.