Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Udall, Mo

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Ruskin, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Porter, Irene

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

George, David Lloyd

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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

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

Naisbitt, John

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

34.

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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Riley, Pat

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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

43.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy