Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Glasgow, Ellen

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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

Udall, Mo

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.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Heraclitus

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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 inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Depree, Max

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Petworth, John

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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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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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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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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.