Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Branden, Nathaniel

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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.

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

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Depree, Max

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Bible

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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Brown, Les

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Davis, William B.

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.