Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

- Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Petworth, John

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

Spander, Art

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.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Brown, Les

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Susan Rice

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Bible

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

George, David Lloyd

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Depree, Max

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Davis, William B.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser