Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bailey, Pearl

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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

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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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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

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Brown, Les

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Be the change you want to see in the world.