Motivational Quotes

Change

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

- Huxley, Elspeth

Best Quotes about Change

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

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

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Virgil

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

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Confucius

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Eliot, George

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

Spander, Art

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

Ruskin, John

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Heraclitus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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.