Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Tilden, Bill

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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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.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

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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.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Udall, Mo

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

Paz, Octavio

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von