Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

- Nelson Mandela

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

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

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

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bible

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Christina Baldwin

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

42.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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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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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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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

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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