Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ramsay Clark

Best Quotes about Change

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Pope, Alexander

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Davis, William B.

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

Ramsay Clark

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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Naisbitt, John

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Churchill, Winston

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Depree, Max

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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.