Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Watts, Alan W.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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 is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

George, David Lloyd

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Klee, Paul

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.