Motivational Quotes

Change

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Angelou, Maya

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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

33.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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

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

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Kearney