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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Ruskin, John

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Paul, Jean

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Heraclitus

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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.