Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

10.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

11.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

12.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

13.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

14.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

15.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

16.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

17.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

18.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

19.

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

20.

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

Robbins, Anthony

21.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

22.

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

Davis, William B.

23.

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

24.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

25.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

26.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

27.

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

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

31.

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

32.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

33.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

34.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

35.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Felltham, Owen

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.