Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

- Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Butterworth, Eric

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Virgil

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Christina Baldwin

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Carol Burnett

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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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