Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mazzini, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Change

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Lynn Hall

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Bible

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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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.

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Virgil

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Murdock, Mike

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Menander of Athens