Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Confucius

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Naisbitt, John

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Heraclitus

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Tilden, Bill

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Felltham, Owen

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Riley, Pat

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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 only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Petworth, John

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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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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.