Motivational Quotes

Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Shaw, P.K.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Schoeder, Caroline

10.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

11.

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

Bible

12.

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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

14.

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

Andy Warhol

15.

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

Murdock, Mike

16.

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

17.

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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

19.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

20.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

21.

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

Rohn, Jim

22.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

23.

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

24.

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

Herford, Oliver

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

32.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

33.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

34.

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

35.

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

Udall, Mo

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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 entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter