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.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

The only people who like change are wet babies.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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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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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

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Kearney

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Ruskin, John

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.