Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Susan Rice

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Porter, Irene

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Spander, Art

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.