Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Udall, Mo

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Shelton, Richard

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will