Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

- Gallagher, Robert C.

Best Quotes about Change

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Bellin, Gita

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.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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.

Susan Rice

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

24.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

25.

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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

33.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Waitley, Denis

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

42.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Petworth, John

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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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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Shaw, P.K.