Motivational Quotes

Change

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

- Harrison Ford

Best Quotes about Change

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Herford, Oliver

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Brown, Les

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bellin, Gita

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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?

25.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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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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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.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Ramsay Clark

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Petworth, John

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Angelou, Maya