Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Rogers, Will

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

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Tilden, Bill

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Butterworth, Eric

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Kearney

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Confucius

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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