Motivational Quotes

Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

- Moorse, Gene

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Gilcrest, Peter

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Riley, Pat

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

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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Butterworth, Eric

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Eliot, George

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

Carol Burnett

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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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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Proust, Marcel

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John