Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Naisbitt, John

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

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Shelton, Richard

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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

Depree, Max

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.