Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

- Nelson Mandela

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

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

Einstein, Albert

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

17.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Paz, Octavio

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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 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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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 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 search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Porter, Irene

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Heraclitus

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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