Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Andy Warhol

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

Heraclitus

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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 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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Petworth, John

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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 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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Susan Rice

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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