Motivational Quotes

Change

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kearney

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

Paul, Jean

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Heraclitus

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

Tracy, Brian

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Christina Baldwin

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Hooker, Richard

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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