Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Change

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

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tracy, Brian

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John 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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Tilden, Bill

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Davis, William B.

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

Proust, Marcel

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