Motivational Quotes

Change

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

- Irving, Washington

Best Quotes about Change

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

Naisbitt, John

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Udall, Mo

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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

34.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

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