Motivational Quotes

Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Naisbitt, John

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Jackson, Nelson

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Watts, Alan W.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

12.

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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proust, Marcel

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Felltham, Owen

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Harrison Ford

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bible

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan