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 cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Angelou, Maya

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

10.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Udall, Mo

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Spander, Art

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

Mcgovern, William

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

35.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

36.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

45.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Carol Burnett

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.