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

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Felltham, Owen

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Brown, Les

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Davis, William B.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Petworth, John

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Heraclitus

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

40.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Ruskin, John

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