Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Naisbitt, John

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Walesa, Lech

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Proust, Marcel

10.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Mohammed

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Paul, Jean

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

20.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Davis, William B.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James