Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Udall, Mo

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

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.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Bible

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

10.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

11.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

12.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Riley, Pat

14.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

15.

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

Kempis, Thomas

16.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

18.

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

19.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

20.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

21.

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

Mcgovern, William

22.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bailey, Pearl

24.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

25.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

27.

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

Watts, Alan W.

28.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

29.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

30.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

31.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

Menander of Athens

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

35.

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

Davis, William B.

36.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

37.

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

38.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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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

43.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Dickens, Charles

46.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lynn Hall

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

49.

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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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