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

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

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

Jackson, Nelson

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Pope, Alexander

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Depree, Max

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

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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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 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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Murdock, Mike

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Heraclitus

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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