Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Kearney

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Ward, William A.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Petworth, John

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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 can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Spander, Art

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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 and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova