Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Buffett, Warren

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

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?

12.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

13.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

14.

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

Dewar, Jeff

15.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

16.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

18.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

20.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

21.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

22.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

23.

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

24.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

25.

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

Menander of Athens

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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

27.

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

Petworth, John

28.

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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

30.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

31.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

32.

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

Lynn Hall

33.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

34.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

35.

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

Bible

37.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

38.

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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Riley, Pat

42.

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

43.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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