Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Udall, Mo

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eliot, George

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

14.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Jackson, Jesse

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Brown, Les

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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.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Mohammed

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Churchill, Winston

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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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