Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Ramsay Clark

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Spander, Art

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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

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Klee, Paul

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

26.

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

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Churchill, Winston

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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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.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Andy Warhol

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.