Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Tilden, Bill

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

10.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

11.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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 industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

15.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

16.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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.

19.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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.

21.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

25.

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

A Course In Miracles

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

28.

Constant change is here to stay.

29.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

30.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

32.

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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

34.

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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

40.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

41.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

43.

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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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

45.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

46.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Paul, Jean

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

Lynn Hall

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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