Motivational Quotes

Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

- Gilbertson, Joan

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Pope, Alexander

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Petworth, John

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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

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Waitley, Denis

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Brown, Les

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.