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

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

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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.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Mcgovern, William