Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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?

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to 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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Brown, Les

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Tracy, Brian

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Andy Warhol

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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