Motivational Quotes

Change

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

- Bryson, Lyman L.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

10.

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

11.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

12.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Carol Burnett

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

21.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

22.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Shaw, P.K.

25.

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

26.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

Rogers, Will

29.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

30.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Bailey, Pearl

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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

34.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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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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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

George, David Lloyd

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

44.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Susan Rice

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma