Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Ward, William A.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Spander, Art

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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 only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Herford, Oliver

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

36.

Constant change is here to stay.

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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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Brown, Les

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn