Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Riley, Pat

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Andy Warhol

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Lynn Hall

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Naisbitt, John

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

George, David Lloyd

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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