Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Pope, Alexander

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Petworth, John

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Virgil

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

Rogers, Will

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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