Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Porter, Irene

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

Lynn Hall

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

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

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

Jackson, Nelson

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

41.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

43.

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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Felltham, Owen

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William