Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Bryant, William C.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Rohn, Jim

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bennett, Arnold

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Mohammed

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Riley, Pat

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Harrison Ford