Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lynn Hall

Best Quotes about Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Kearney

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

Freeman, James Dillet

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

27.

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

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Spander, Art

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

39.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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

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

Gilcrest, Peter