Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Change

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Naisbitt, John

11.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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?

18.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

28.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

39.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

40.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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.