Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Garfield, Charles A.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Bryant, William C.

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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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

12.

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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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 are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

34.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Porter, Irene

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

44.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Davis, William B.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Naisbitt, John

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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