Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Tilden, Bill

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Nelson Mandela

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.