Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

12.

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

Virgil

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

A Course In Miracles

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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

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Murdock, Mike