Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Naisbitt, John

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Tracy, Brian

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Spander, Art

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

34.

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

Jackson, Jesse

35.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus