Motivational Quotes

Change

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Garfield, Charles A.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Depree, Max

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Bennett, Arnold

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Spander, Art

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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 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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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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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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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

39.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Naisbitt, John

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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