Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Hoffer, Eric

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Brown, Les

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Paul, Jean

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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?

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Jackson, Nelson

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Heraclitus

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Proust, Marcel