Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Udall, Mo

Best Quotes about Change

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

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Tilden, Bill

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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

Petworth, John

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Spander, Art

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Constant change is here to stay.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.