Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kearney

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

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

Bible

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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

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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.

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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 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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Churchill, Winston