Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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

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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

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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 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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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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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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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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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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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

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Ruskin, John

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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