Motivational Quotes

Change

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Change

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Spander, Art

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Naisbitt, John

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proust, Marcel

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lynn Hall

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Walesa, Lech

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony