Motivational Quotes

Change

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Niebuhr, Reinhold

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Paul, Jean

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Bailey, Pearl

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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?

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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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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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Eliot, George

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Paz, Octavio