Motivational Quotes

Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Change

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Naisbitt, John

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

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

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

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Proust, Marcel

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Mcgovern, William

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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