Motivational Quotes

Change

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Real Live Preacher

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Watts, Alan W.

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

A Course In Miracles

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Bible

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

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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 is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.