Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Udall, Mo

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

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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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 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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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Andy Warhol

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

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Brown, Les

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Spander, Art

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Angelou, Maya

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas