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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Nelson Mandela

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Heraclitus

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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 are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Porter, Irene

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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 we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Lynn Hall

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

Ruskin, John

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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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?

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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.

34.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Andy Warhol

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Murdock, Mike

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Riley, Pat

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Sinetar, Marsha