Motivational Quotes

Change

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Change

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

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.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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.

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.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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

Spander, Art

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

Harrison Ford

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Eliot, George

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

25.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

32.

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

Riley, Pat

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

39.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Kearney

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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