Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Change

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Real Live Preacher

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carol Burnett

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bellin, Gita

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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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