Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

- Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Menander of Athens

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

Proust, Marcel

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Ruskin, John

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

Ramsay Clark

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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.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Bible

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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 not reform, any more than noise is music.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Schoeder, Caroline