Motivational Quotes

Change

One person's constant is another person's variable.

- Gerhart, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Brown, Les

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Tracy, Brian

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Spander, Art

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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.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Porter, Irene

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

Confucius

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

Beauvoir, Simone De