Motivational Quotes

Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

- Moorse, Gene

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Tilden, Bill

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Menander of Athens

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

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

Depree, Max

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.