Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Change

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

Brown, Les

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.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

11.

Constant change is here to stay.

12.

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

Tilden, Bill

13.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

14.

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

Macmillan, Harold

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

22.

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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

27.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

28.

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

Udall, Mo

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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

33.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

34.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

35.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

45.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.