Motivational Quotes

Change

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Ruskin, John

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.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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 need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Porter, Irene

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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 is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bennett, Arnold

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Tracy, Brian