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

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

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

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bacon, Francis

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, 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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

George, David Lloyd

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Ramsay Clark

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Bible

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Drucker, Peter F.