Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change; we change.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shaw, P.K.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Petworth, John

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

Carol Burnett

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Eliot, George

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Klee, Paul

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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.

19.

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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Spander, Art

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

34.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Burke, Edmund