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

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

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

Herford, Oliver

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Carol Burnett

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Menander of Athens

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

George, David Lloyd

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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