Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carol Burnett

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

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Susan Rice

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Buffett, Warren

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Tracy, Brian

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

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