Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

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

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Naisbitt, John

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heraclitus

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Gerhart, Susan

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Waitley, Denis

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Porter, Irene

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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