Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rogers, Will

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Porter, Irene

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

Heraclitus

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

34.

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

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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 do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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