Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Shaw, P.K.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

10.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

11.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

12.

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

Spander, Art

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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 is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

21.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

25.

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

26.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

29.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

30.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Udall, Mo

40.

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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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.

44.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Constant change is here to stay.

46.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Burke, Edmund

48.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood