Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Depree, Max

Best Quotes about Change

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Churchill, Winston

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Depree, Max

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

Ruskin, John

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Herford, Oliver

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

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Rogers, Will

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bennett, Arnold

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel