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

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Proust, Marcel

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Rohn, Jim

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Virgil

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.