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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Sontag, Susan

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Davis, William B.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Douglas, William O.

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Bible

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, 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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Paul, Jean