Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Riley, Pat

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

Bennett, Arnold

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Kearney

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

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Heraclitus

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Rowan, Carl

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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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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