Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Spander, Art

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Burke, Edmund

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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