Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lynn Hall

Best Quotes about Change

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

Virgil

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

Murdock, Mike

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Carol Burnett

The only people who like change are wet babies.

10.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

11.

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

12.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

13.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

15.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Kearney

18.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

19.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

20.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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.

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

28.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

40.

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?

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

Spander, Art

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Riley, Pat