Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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.

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

Draper, John W.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Spander, Art

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Riley, Pat

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Mohammed

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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