Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Gilcrest, Peter

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Naisbitt, John

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Petworth, John

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lynn Hall

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

George, David Lloyd

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Waitley, Denis

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Angelou, Maya

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Confucius

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Rohn, Jim

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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