Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Udall, Mo

Best Quotes about Change

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

Churchill, Winston

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

George, David Lloyd

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Riley, Pat

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Heraclitus

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Susan Rice