Motivational Quotes

Change

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Best Quotes about Change

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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

Buffett, Warren

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eliot, George

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Depree, Max

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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

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

Hooker, Richard

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Spander, Art

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Lynn Hall

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.