Motivational Quotes

Change

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

- Mazzini, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

A Course In Miracles

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Tilden, Bill

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

10.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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?

19.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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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 is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

28.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

41.

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse