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

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

Rohn, Jim

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Bryant, William C.

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

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

Jackson, Nelson

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Andy Warhol

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

17.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

28.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Depree, Max

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Porter, Irene

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.