Motivational Quotes

Change

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Buffett, Warren

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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 is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

43.

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?

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

Murdock, Mike

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les