Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Change

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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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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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Shelton, Richard

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Carol Burnett

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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