Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Klee, Paul

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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.

11.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Davis, William B.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Burke, Edmund

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

23.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

33.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Petworth, John

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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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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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.

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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