Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Dewar, Jeff

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Felltham, Owen

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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 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

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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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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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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Depree, Max

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching