Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Tracy, Brian

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Ward, William A.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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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

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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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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Ruskin, John

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

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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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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.