Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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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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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Naisbitt, John

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus