Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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

Paul, Jean

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Dante Alighieri

28.

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

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

Mohammed

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Kearney

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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