Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

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

Rogers, Will

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

10.

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

Shaw, P.K.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

14.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

15.

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.

16.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

17.

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.

18.

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

Bryant, William C.

19.

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

20.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

21.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

22.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

23.

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

Gerhart, Susan

24.

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

Butterworth, Eric

25.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

26.

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

Klee, Paul

27.

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

28.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

29.

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

Spencer, Herbert

30.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

31.

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

32.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

33.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

34.

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

Rohn, Jim

35.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

37.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

38.

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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

40.

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.

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

42.

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

Kearney

43.

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 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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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

46.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

47.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

48.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

49.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

50.

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