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 inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

King Whitney Jr.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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

16.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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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

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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

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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

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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.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.