Motivational Quotes

Change

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Change

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Churchill, Winston

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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.

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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