Motivational Quotes

Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Change

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Gerhart, Susan

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Mohammed

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

Riley, Pat

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

43.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Branden, Nathaniel