Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Naisbitt, John

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Proust, Marcel

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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