Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Naisbitt, John

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

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

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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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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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Constant change is here to stay.

42.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Petworth, John

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston