Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Socrates

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Tracy, Brian

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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Depree, Max

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

Heraclitus

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Ramsay Clark

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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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 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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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