Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Christina Baldwin

Best Quotes about Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Heraclitus

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Udall, Mo

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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

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

Naisbitt, John

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Murdock, Mike

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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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 changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail