Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Jackson, Nelson

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Harrison Ford

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

Virgil

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Udall, Mo

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Heraclitus

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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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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.