Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Ward, William A.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Confucius

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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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

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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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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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

26.

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

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline