Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

A Course In Miracles

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Drucker, Peter F.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

10.

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.

11.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

12.

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

Watts, Alan W.

13.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

15.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Naisbitt, John

17.

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

Klee, Paul

18.

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?

19.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

20.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

21.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

22.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

25.

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

Angelou, Maya

26.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

27.

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

28.

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Carol Burnett

31.

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

Udall, Mo

32.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

40.

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

Shaw, P.K.

41.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Porter, Irene