Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bailey, Pearl

Best Quotes about Change

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

Riley, Pat

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Depree, Max

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

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

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

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

10.

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

Harrison Ford

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

15.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

16.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

18.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

27.

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

Dante Alighieri

28.

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

29.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

30.

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

Virgil

31.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

34.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

41.

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

A Course In Miracles

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Churchill, Winston

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.