Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

I Ching

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

10.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

11.

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

Bryant, William C.

12.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

13.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

15.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

16.

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

Kearney

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

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

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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.

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

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

Robbins, Anthony

23.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

24.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

26.

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.

27.

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

Ruskin, John

28.

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

Carol Burnett

29.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

30.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

31.

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.

32.

Constant change is here to stay.

33.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Spencer, Herbert

37.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

38.

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

40.

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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

43.

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

Bellin, Gita

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

47.

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

Petworth, John

48.

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

49.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

50.

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.