Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

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 industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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

12.

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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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

24.

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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Burke, Edmund

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

35.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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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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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Riley, Pat

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.