Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Heraclitus

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

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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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

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

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Menander of Athens

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark