Motivational Quotes

Change

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Waitley, Denis

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Ramsay Clark

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

11.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

12.

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

13.

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Christina Baldwin

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Paul, Jean

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

37.

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

Andy Warhol

38.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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