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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Churchill, Winston

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Bailey, Pearl

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Bennett, Arnold

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Udall, Mo

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

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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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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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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?

41.

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

Ward, William A.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Petworth, John

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Proust, Marcel