Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Ramsay Clark

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Naisbitt, John

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Porter, Irene

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Lynn Hall

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 change and change for the better are two different things