Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Heraclitus

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.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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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?

20.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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