Motivational Quotes

Change

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

- Draper, John W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Branden, Nathaniel

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Harrison Ford

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

Hooker, Richard

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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?

19.

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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

A Course In Miracles

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Murdock, Mike

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Klee, Paul

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Naisbitt, John