Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Glasgow, Ellen

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Nelson Mandela

10.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

12.

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

Udall, Mo

13.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

14.

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

Burke, Edmund

15.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

16.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

26.

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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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

28.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

29.

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

Socrates

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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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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

33.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

37.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

38.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

39.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Christina Baldwin

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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To change and change for the better are two different things