Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes but change.

- Zangwill, Israel

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Draper, John W.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Nelson Mandela

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

19.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Lynn Hall

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

30.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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