Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Shaw, P.K.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Sontag, Susan

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Robbins, Anthony

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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.

40.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill