Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

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

Petworth, John

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

11.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

12.

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

13.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

14.

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

Buffett, Warren

15.

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

16.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

17.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

18.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

19.

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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

22.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

23.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

26.

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

Bailey, Pearl

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

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

29.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

30.

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

31.

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

32.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

33.

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

Nelson Mandela

34.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

35.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

36.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

38.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

39.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

40.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

41.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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

43.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

44.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

45.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

47.

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

Socrates

49.

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

Kempis, Thomas

50.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.