Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Susan Rice

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Mcgovern, William

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

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Hooker, Richard

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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 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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Porter, Irene

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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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.

33.

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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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.

40.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Udall, Mo

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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