Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Riley, Pat

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.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Depree, Max

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

18.

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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Andy Warhol

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Menander of Athens

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.