Motivational Quotes

Change

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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

Shelton, Richard

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

11.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

12.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

Tracy, Brian

14.

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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

16.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

25.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

27.

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

Bennett, Arnold

28.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

30.

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

31.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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.

34.

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.

35.

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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

41.

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

Proust, Marcel

42.

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

Andy Warhol

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter