Motivational Quotes

Change

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

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

Christina Baldwin

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Shaw, P.K.

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

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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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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kearney

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Udall, Mo

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Bacon, Francis

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Ruskin, John

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Confucius

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Waitley, Denis