Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change, we do.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Dewar, Jeff

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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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

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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 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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kearney

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

Davis, William B.

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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.