Motivational Quotes

Change

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

- Martha Beck

Best Quotes about Change

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Brown, Les

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

14.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

16.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

17.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

18.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

19.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

20.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Real Live Preacher

22.

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.

23.

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

Lynn Hall

25.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

43.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spander, Art

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

Riley, Pat

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.