Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

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

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

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

Christina Baldwin

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Confucius

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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 more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Maslow, Abraham H.