Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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

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

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Burke, Edmund

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Riley, Pat

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

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