Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

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

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Waitley, Denis

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Riley, Pat

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Murdock, Mike

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Paz, Octavio

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

George, David Lloyd

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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