Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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

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

Tilden, Bill

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Spencer, Herbert

10.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

12.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

24.

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

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

Davis, William B.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Mcgovern, William

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Depree, Max

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

Christina Baldwin

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Real Live Preacher

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.