Motivational Quotes

Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Change

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Mohammed

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

42.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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 need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di