Motivational Quotes

Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Draper, John W.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Churchill, Winston

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Andy Warhol

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Confucius

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Eliot, George

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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 all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.