Motivational Quotes

Change

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

- Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

Best Quotes about Change

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Christina Baldwin

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Kearney

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

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

Spander, Art

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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

13.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

14.

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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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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

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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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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von