Motivational Quotes

Change

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Change

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

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Socrates

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

Tilden, Bill

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Heraclitus

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sontag, Susan

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Confucius

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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