Motivational Quotes

Change

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Ramsay Clark

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Davis, William B.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

26.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Gerhart, Susan

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

42.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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