Motivational Quotes

Change

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Kearney

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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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

Davis, William B.

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

Spander, Art

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Carol Burnett

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew