Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes but change.

- Zangwill, Israel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mohammed

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Davis, William B.

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Andy Warhol

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Ruskin, John

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Virgil

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Churchill, Winston

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Nelson Mandela

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Herford, Oliver

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Depree, Max

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Real Live Preacher

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus