Motivational Quotes

Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Nelson Mandela

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Kearney

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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

10.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Ward, William A.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Naisbitt, John

17.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

18.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

19.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

20.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

21.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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

25.

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

Virgil

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

28.

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

Lynn Hall

29.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

30.

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

Dean, Jimmy

31.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Murdock, Mike

34.

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

Porter, Irene

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

40.

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

Gerhart, Susan

41.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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 can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Heraclitus

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

Bible

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

48.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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