Motivational Quotes

Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hooker, Richard

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Proust, Marcel

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Confucius

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dante Alighieri