Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Sinetar, Marsha

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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

11.

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

Murdock, Mike

12.

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

Virgil

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

Kearney

14.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

15.

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

Porter, Irene

16.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

18.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

19.

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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

21.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Tracy, Brian

27.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Lynn Hall

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

31.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Hooker, Richard

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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

43.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Hoffer, Eric

48.

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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon