Motivational Quotes

Change

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

- Glasgow, Ellen

Best Quotes about Change

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Susan Rice

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Christina Baldwin

Constant change is here to stay.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

25.

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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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 happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Naisbitt, John

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Real Live Preacher

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy