Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

George, David Lloyd

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Confucius

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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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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

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Andy Warhol

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Hooker, Richard

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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