Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

10.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

11.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kearney

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Spander, Art

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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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 can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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 yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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?

50.

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