Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

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

Watts, Alan W.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

21.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

24.

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

Naisbitt, John

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

26.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

32.

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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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 great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

40.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

42.

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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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