Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Virgil

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

Baudrillard, Jean

10.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Petworth, John

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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 changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

21.

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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Waitley, Denis

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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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

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

Udall, Mo

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

41.

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

Depree, Max

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Spander, Art

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.