Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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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 not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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