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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Klee, Paul

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Naisbitt, John

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

10.

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

Heraclitus

11.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

12.

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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King Whitney Jr.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Virgil

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Lynn Hall

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

33.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Spencer, Herbert

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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.