Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Change

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bryant, William C.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Constant change is here to stay.

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

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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

Petworth, John

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.