Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

28.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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.

Einstein, Albert

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

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Spander, Art

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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