Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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

Felltham, Owen

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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

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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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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

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

Kearney

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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 industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Harrison Ford

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Ramsay Clark

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

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

Petworth, John

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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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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