Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Eliot, George

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

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Real Live Preacher

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.