Motivational Quotes

Change

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Carol Burnett

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Porter, Irene

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

Udall, Mo

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Heraclitus

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Naisbitt, John

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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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.