Motivational Quotes

Change

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

12.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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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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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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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

24.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Eliot, George

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

40.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De