Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lynn Hall

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Gilcrest, Peter

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Felltham, Owen

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Spander, Art

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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.

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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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 more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Hooker, Richard

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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.