Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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.

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Riley, Pat

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Paul, Jean

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Petworth, John

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

34.

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

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

Carol Burnett

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paz, Octavio

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic