Motivational Quotes

Change

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

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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 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

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Carol Burnett

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Riley, Pat

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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.

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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