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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Churchill, Winston

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Spander, Art

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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Ovid

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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

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

Petworth, John

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Carol Burnett

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Harrison Ford

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.