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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Gilcrest, Peter

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Schoeder, Caroline

10.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

11.

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

Spander, Art

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

15.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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

17.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

18.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

19.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

20.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

21.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

23.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

25.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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

27.

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

Ward, William A.

28.

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

Spencer, Herbert

29.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Confucius

31.

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

Andy Warhol

32.

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

Rohn, Jim

33.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

34.

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

Christina Baldwin

35.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

38.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

40.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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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

43.

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

Burke, Edmund

44.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

45.

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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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