Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Churchill, Winston

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

13.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Spander, Art

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

19.

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 man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Depree, Max

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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

31.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.