Motivational Quotes

Change

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Kearney

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

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

Rohn, Jim

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Klee, Paul

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Murdock, Mike

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Angelou, Maya

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.