Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Watts, Alan W.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

10.

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

11.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

12.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

13.

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

14.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Christina Baldwin

17.

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

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

22.

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

25.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

30.

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

Hooker, Richard

32.

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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

37.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

48.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.