Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kearney

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

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

Proust, Marcel

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Buffett, Warren

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Bellin, Gita

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

10.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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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