Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dewar, Jeff

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

12.

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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Ward, William A.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Klee, Paul

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Eliot, George

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Menander of Athens

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius