Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

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

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Dewar, Jeff

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Ruskin, John

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Porter, Irene

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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