Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Eliot, George

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

Kearney

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

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 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

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Paul, Jean

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Bennett, Arnold

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 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

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Proust, Marcel

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff