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

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

10.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

14.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Proust, Marcel

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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.

25.

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

27.

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

28.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Porter, Irene

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

42.

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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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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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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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James