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

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Bryant, William C.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Lee, Bruce

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Shelton, Richard

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

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Naisbitt, John

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

11.

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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

13.

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

Harrison Ford

14.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

15.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

16.

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

17.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

18.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

19.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

21.

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

Udall, Mo

22.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Davis, William B.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

25.

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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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.

27.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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

31.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

32.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

33.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

34.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

35.

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

36.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Andy Warhol

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

Lynn Hall

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

Bailey, Pearl

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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