Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Change

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

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

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

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

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

Andy Warhol

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Menander of Athens

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Bennett, Arnold