Motivational Quotes

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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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Best Quotes about Change

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

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Davis, William B.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carol Burnett

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Depree, Max

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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.

33.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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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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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American