Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Bible

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

12.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

13.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

19.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

20.

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

Naisbitt, John

21.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

25.

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

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

27.

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?

28.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

30.

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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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.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

41.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Menander of Athens

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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