Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Naisbitt, John

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Shelton, Richard

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

21.

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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

28.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Klee, Paul

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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 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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Waitley, Denis

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela