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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Naisbitt, John

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Tilden, Bill

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

39.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rohn, Jim

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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