Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Astor, Lady Nancy

Best Quotes about Change

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

Pope, Alexander

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

Constant change is here to stay.

10.

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

Bennett, Arnold

11.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

12.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Butterworth, Eric

18.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

20.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Shelton, Richard

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

31.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Lynn Hall

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

36.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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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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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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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.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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