Motivational Quotes

Change

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Change

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

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

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Lynn Hall

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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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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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

24.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Waitley, Denis

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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 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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford