Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

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

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

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Felltham, Owen

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tracy, Brian

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Heraclitus

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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Davis, William B.

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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