Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Best Quotes about Change

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Susan Rice

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Depree, Max

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Buffett, Warren

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Bible

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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?

23.

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

Petworth, John

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Mcgovern, William

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

28.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

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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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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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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.