Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Dean, Jimmy

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Andy Warhol

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Bible

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Menander of Athens

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

Churchill, Winston

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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.