Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Carol Burnett

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Klee, Paul

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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 thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Paul, Jean

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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 things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Porter, Irene

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Petworth, John

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.