Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Robbins, Anthony

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Depree, Max

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

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

Harrison Ford

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

11.

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

Confucius

12.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

13.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

14.

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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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

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Petworth, John

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

27.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

29.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

30.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Spander, Art

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

40.

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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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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?

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Ruskin, John

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

Carol Burnett

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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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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

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard