Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

11.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

12.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

13.

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

Walesa, Lech

14.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

15.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Heraclitus

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

20.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

25.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

37.

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

38.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Christina Baldwin

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Mcgovern, William