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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

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

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Kearney

11.

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

Ward, William A.

12.

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Lynn Hall

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

25.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Paul, Jean

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

40.

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

Burke, Edmund

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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