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

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

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

Riley, Pat

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Spander, Art

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

Lynn Hall

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

Carol Burnett

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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

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

Confucius

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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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

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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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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Constant change is here to stay.