Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

11.

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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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 can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Kearney

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

Herford, Oliver

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Heraclitus

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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A rut is a grave with no ends.