Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

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.

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

Jackson, Nelson

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

11.

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

Klee, Paul

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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 your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Tilden, Bill

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

22.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

41.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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