Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Heraclitus

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

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Susan Rice

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

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Kearney

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Ward, William A.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Porter, Irene

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard