Motivational Quotes

Change

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Porter, Irene

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Kearney

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

Churchill, Winston

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Mohammed

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Petworth, John

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Bacon, Francis

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching