Motivational Quotes

Change

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

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

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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ruskin, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kearney

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Lee, Bruce

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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.

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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.