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

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Heraclitus

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ruskin, John

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

10.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

11.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

12.

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

Porter, Irene

13.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

14.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

15.

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

Virgil

17.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

18.

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

19.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

20.

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.

21.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

22.

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

Dean, Jimmy

23.

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

Andy Warhol

24.

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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

26.

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

Bennett, Arnold

27.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

30.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

31.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

32.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

33.

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

34.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

35.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

36.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

37.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

38.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

39.

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

Jackson, Jesse

40.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

41.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

42.

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

Waitley, Denis

44.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

45.

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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

47.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo