Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes but change.

- Zangwill, Israel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Riley, Pat

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

Menander of Athens

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

Proust, Marcel

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Draper, John W.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Davis, William B.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bible

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

39.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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.