Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Naisbitt, John

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Draper, John W.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kearney

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Andy Warhol

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

Hooker, Richard

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bible

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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