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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Shelton, Richard

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Harrison Ford

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.