Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Change

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

Schuller, Robert H.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Bacon, Francis

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Harrison Ford

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Naisbitt, John

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.

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

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

George, David Lloyd

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Depree, Max

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

Riley, Pat

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

Porter, Irene

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe