Motivational Quotes

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.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Socrates

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Tilden, Bill

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Constant change is here to stay.

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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 main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bellin, Gita

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle