Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Lee, Bruce

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Rogers, Will

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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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

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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 powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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 is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.