Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Spencer, Herbert

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

11.

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

Petworth, John

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Burke, Edmund

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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 is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Brown, Les

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

29.

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?

30.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Harrison Ford

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.