Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Paul, Jean

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

17.

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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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

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Dewar, Jeff