Motivational Quotes

Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Change

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Watts, Alan W.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Felltham, Owen

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Dewar, Jeff

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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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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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tracy, Brian