Motivational Quotes

Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rogers, Will

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

11.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

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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

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

22.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Depree, Max

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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?

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

Porter, Irene

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

40.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

41.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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.