Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Bryant, William C.

4.

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

Shaw, P.K.

5.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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.

8.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

9.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

12.

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

13.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Paul, Jean

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Constant change is here to stay.

17.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

19.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

20.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

21.

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

Spander, Art

22.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

23.

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

24.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Burke, Edmund

27.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

28.

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

Shelton, Richard

29.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

30.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

31.

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

Dewar, Jeff

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Lee, Bruce

35.

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

Riley, Pat

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.

Jackson, Jesse

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

41.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

42.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

43.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

44.

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

45.

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

Naisbitt, John

46.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

50.

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