Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Real Live Preacher

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Ward, William A.

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

Gerhart, Susan

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carol Burnett

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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 main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Brown, Les

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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

Klee, Paul