Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ward, William A.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hooker, Richard

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Paz, Octavio

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tilden, Bill

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Heraclitus

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Herford, Oliver

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.