Motivational Quotes

Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Udall, Mo

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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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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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 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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.