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

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

Andy Warhol

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

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

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Kearney

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Eliot, George

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

Bennett, Arnold

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy