Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

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

Waitley, Denis

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

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Murdock, Mike

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

11.

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

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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 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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Carol Burnett

18.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

19.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Angelou, Maya

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Dante Alighieri

27.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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

36.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.