Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Socrates

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Heraclitus

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

Tracy, Brian

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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