Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Naisbitt, John

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Proust, Marcel

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Felltham, Owen

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Porter, Irene

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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