Motivational Quotes

Change

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Kearney

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

Ramsay Clark

10.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Porter, Irene

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

18.

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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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

24.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Harrison Ford

27.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

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

Ward, William A.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Churchill, Winston

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Naisbitt, John

36.

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

37.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

44.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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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.