Motivational Quotes

Change

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ramsay Clark

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Socrates

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

Nelson Mandela

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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Churchill, Winston

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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 happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Heraclitus

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Depree, Max

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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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