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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Shelton, Richard

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul