Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

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

Spander, Art

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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 happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Constant change is here to stay.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Brown, Les

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

Porter, Irene