Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Heraclitus

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Jackson, Nelson

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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.

11.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Ruskin, John

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Pope, Alexander

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Shelton, Richard

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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.

29.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

30.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

36.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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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.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Heraclitus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.