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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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

Bible

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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

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

Udall, Mo

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Mohammed

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Virgil

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

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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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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

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

29.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Angelou, Maya

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe