Motivational Quotes

Change

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

- Ryan, Nolan

Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Robbins, Anthony

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Felltham, Owen

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Susan Rice

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Rogers, Will

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Waitley, Denis

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Glasgow, Ellen