Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Drucker, Peter F.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

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

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

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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 can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Christina Baldwin

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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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 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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Waitley, Denis

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Virgil

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.