Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gilcrest, Peter

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Mohammed

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

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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Proust, Marcel

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Davis, William B.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

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

Klee, Paul

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese