Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Harrison Ford

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Andy Warhol

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

Jackson, Nelson

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

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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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Petworth, John

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

Paul, Jean

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Bailey, Pearl