Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about 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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Brown, Les

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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.

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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.

26.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Virgil

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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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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

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

Udall, Mo

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

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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 most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.