Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

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

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Virgil

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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 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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan