Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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 who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Klee, Paul

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Gerhart, Susan

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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?

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Kearney

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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