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

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

Einstein, Albert

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Buffett, Warren

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Bible

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Proust, Marcel

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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