Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Churchill, Winston

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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 true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 not reform, any more than noise is music.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Bellin, Gita