Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Draper, John W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Baudrillard, Jean

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Mcgovern, William

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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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

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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.

31.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Andy Warhol

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

Spander, Art

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Bryant, William C.

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Kearney

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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