Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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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

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bryant, William C.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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