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

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

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Ramsay Clark

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

10.

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

Real Live Preacher

11.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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.

15.

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Mcgovern, William

20.

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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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

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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

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

Spander, Art

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

31.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tilden, Bill

33.

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

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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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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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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?

45.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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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

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius