Motivational Quotes

Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Paul, Jean

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Ruskin, John

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

Udall, Mo

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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

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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

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Spander, Art

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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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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

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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