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

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Waitley, Denis

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Jackson, Nelson

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Drucker, Peter F.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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

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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony 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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

41.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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

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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

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American