Motivational Quotes

Change

In pain is a new time born.

- Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Spencer, Herbert

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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

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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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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

Klee, Paul

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

George, David Lloyd

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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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 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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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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

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Kearney