Motivational Quotes

Change

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

Constant change is here to stay.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Davis, William B.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Virgil

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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 only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Ruskin, John

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Naisbitt, John

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.