Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Carol Burnett

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Harrison Ford

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

Proust, Marcel

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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