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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Paz, Octavio

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Harrison Ford

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

27.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Heraclitus

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Naisbitt, John

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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

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe