Motivational Quotes

Change

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

- Ryan, Nolan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

14.

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

Kearney

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

Heraclitus

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

19.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Depree, Max

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Bible

36.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

40.

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

41.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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

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

Spander, Art

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Riley, Pat

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Burke, Edmund