Motivational Quotes

Change

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Brown, Les

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Harrison Ford

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

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

Bible

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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.

Socrates

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Christina Baldwin

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

27.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Paul, Jean

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Heraclitus

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Murdock, Mike

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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