Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Hooker, Richard

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Shelton, Richard

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Heraclitus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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