Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Schoeder, Caroline

Best Quotes about Change

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

19.

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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Petworth, John

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent