Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mcgovern, William

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.

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

Walesa, Lech

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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?

14.

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

Petworth, John

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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 your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Lynn Hall

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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