Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Kettering, Charles F.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Klee, Paul

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Shelton, Richard

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Felltham, Owen

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Petworth, John

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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.

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Virgil

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Eliot, George

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

Naisbitt, John

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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