Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

10.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

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

13.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

14.

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

Virgil

15.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

18.

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.

19.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

20.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

21.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

22.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

23.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

24.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

25.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

26.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

27.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

29.

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

30.

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

Susan Rice

31.

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

32.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

33.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bailey, Pearl

39.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

42.

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

43.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Gerhart, Susan

45.

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

Kearney

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