Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Susan Rice

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Bellin, Gita

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Paul, Jean

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Susan Rice

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Murdock, Mike

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

30.

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

Brown, Les

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Naisbitt, John

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Harrison Ford

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