Motivational Quotes

Change

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

- Alther, Lisa

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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.

Braude, Jacob M.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Bible

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Mohammed

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Susan Rice

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Christina Baldwin

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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