Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Bennett, Arnold

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

12.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Kearney

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Ruskin, John

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

Heraclitus

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Riley, Pat

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Heraclitus

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

46.

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

Rogers, Will

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Spander, Art

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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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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