Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Felltham, Owen

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Bible

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

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

30.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Constant change is here to stay.

33.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tilden, Bill

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

38.

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

Porter, Irene

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Paul, Jean

41.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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.