Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Lynn Hall

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

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.

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

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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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

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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

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Brown, Les

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara