Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Change

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?

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Churchill, Winston

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

10.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

11.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Davis, William B.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Walesa, Lech

30.

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

Petworth, John

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

Heraclitus

32.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Paul, Jean

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

37.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

40.

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

41.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bryant, William C.

44.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Naisbitt, John

48.

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

Harrison Ford

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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 all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne