Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Ruskin, John

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Dewar, Jeff

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Susan Rice

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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?

34.

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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Rohn, Jim