Motivational Quotes

Change

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

- Dewar, Jeff

Best Quotes about Change

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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.

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

Spander, Art

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Brown, Les

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

George, David Lloyd

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Udall, Mo

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.