Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Confucius

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

Churchill, Winston

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Riley, Pat

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

Petworth, John

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

10.

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

11.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Tracy, Brian

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Heraclitus

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Mohammed

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.