Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Hoffer, Eric

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Nelson Mandela

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

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

10.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

11.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

12.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

13.

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

Tilden, Bill

14.

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

Angelou, Maya

15.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

16.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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

21.

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

Kearney

23.

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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

26.

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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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.

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

Bailey, Pearl

29.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Waitley, Denis

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Carol Burnett

41.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene