Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Draper, John W.

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Herford, Oliver

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Constant change is here to stay.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Petworth, John

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