Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Change

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Pickens, T. Boone

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Virgil

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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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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 can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Almanac, Mary S.

31.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Tracy, Brian

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