Motivational Quotes

Change

One person's constant is another person's variable.

- Gerhart, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Pickens, T. Boone

10.

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

Klee, Paul

11.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

12.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Porter, Irene

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

18.

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

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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.

23.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Draper, John W.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

26.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

27.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

28.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

30.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

31.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

40.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

48.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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