Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Spander, Art

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gerhart, Susan

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Confucius

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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

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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

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Virgil

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.