Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spander, Art

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Walesa, Lech

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Porter, Irene

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

10.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

11.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

12.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

13.

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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

15.

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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

20.

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

21.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Carol Burnett

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

30.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

31.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

32.

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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ruskin, John

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Herford, Oliver

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy