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

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

Hooker, Richard

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Pope, Alexander

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Carol Burnett

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Felltham, Owen

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Paul, Jean

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Spander, Art

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Udall, Mo

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Bellin, Gita

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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The only people who like change are wet babies.