Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rogers, Will

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Garfield, Charles A.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Mohammed

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Naisbitt, John

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Porter, Irene

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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