Motivational Quotes

Change

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Naisbitt, John

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Nelson Mandela

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.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tilden, Bill

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Petworth, John

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

Andy Warhol

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Porter, Irene

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Ruskin, John

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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 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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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel