Motivational Quotes

Change

Music can't change the world.

- Geldof, Bob

Best Quotes about Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Heraclitus

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Felltham, Owen

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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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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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