Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Shaw, P.K.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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.

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.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

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

Angelou, Maya

10.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

11.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

13.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

14.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

15.

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

16.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

17.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

18.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

19.

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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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

21.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

27.

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

28.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Tracy, Brian

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Real Live Preacher

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

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

37.

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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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.

43.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

49.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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