Motivational Quotes

Change

Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Hooker, Richard

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Christina Baldwin

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Bacon, Francis

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Petworth, John

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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're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene