Motivational Quotes

Change

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?

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Best Quotes about Change

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Bible

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Davis, William B.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

Walesa, Lech

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Bellin, Gita

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Virgil

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Everything changes but change.