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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Ruskin, John

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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 need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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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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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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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Shelton, Richard

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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