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 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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

10.

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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Hoffer, Eric

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eliot, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Robbins, Anthony

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Klee, Paul