Motivational Quotes

Change

One person's constant is another person's variable.

- Gerhart, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

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

Hooker, Richard

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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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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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 has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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 not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

28.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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

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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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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

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Eliot, George

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Tilden, Bill

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau