Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Draper, John W.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Naisbitt, John

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Carol Burnett

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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

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

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Churchill, Winston

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Tilden, Bill

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hooker, Richard

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall