Motivational Quotes

Change

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Confucius

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

10.

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

Rohn, Jim

11.

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

Naisbitt, John

12.

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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Ward, William A.

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Bible

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Menander of Athens

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Waitley, Denis

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von