Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Spander, Art

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Draper, John W.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Brown, Les

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

Felltham, Owen

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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.

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

33.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Ruskin, John

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Churchill, Winston