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

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Sinetar, Marsha

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

10.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

11.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Paz, Octavio

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

19.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

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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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

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

29.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

30.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Klee, Paul

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan