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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Susan Rice

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.