Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Naisbitt, John

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Ruskin, John

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Bible

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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