Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paz, Octavio

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

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.

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.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Brown, Les

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

Angelou, Maya

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Heraclitus

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

Depree, Max

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.