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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Virgil

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

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

Proust, Marcel

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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?

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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 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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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Carol Burnett

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Spander, Art

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

Real Live Preacher

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.