Motivational Quotes

Change

In pain is a new time born.

- Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

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

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.

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 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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Riley, Pat

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

Churchill, Winston

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Davis, William B.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Socrates

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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