Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Lynn Hall

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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.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Eliot, George

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

Spander, Art

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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