Motivational Quotes

Change

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

- Dewar, Jeff

Best Quotes about Change

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

Harrison Ford

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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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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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.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Naisbitt, John

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Heraclitus

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan