Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

21.

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

Ruskin, John

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Macarthur, Douglas

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Menander of Athens

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.