Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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.

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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Andy Warhol

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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 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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Shelton, Richard

35.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

38.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Paul, Jean

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Bible

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa