Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Susan Rice

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Socrates

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Dewar, Jeff

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma