Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kearney

2.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

3.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

4.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

5.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

6.

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

7.

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

8.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

9.

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

Depree, Max

10.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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

12.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

13.

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

Harrison Ford

14.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Sontag, Susan

18.

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

Gerhart, Susan

19.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

20.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

21.

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

Churchill, Winston

22.

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

Butterworth, Eric

23.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

25.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

26.

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

27.

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

Lee, Bruce

28.

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.

29.

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

Shaw, P.K.

30.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

31.

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

Bible

32.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

33.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

34.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

35.

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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

38.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

39.

Constant change is here to stay.

40.

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

Dewar, Jeff

41.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob