Motivational Quotes

Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

- ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Best Quotes about Change

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Jackson, Jesse

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bellin, Gita

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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 most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Porter, Irene

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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.

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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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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Confucius

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

Naisbitt, John

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.